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A warning to the flocks against wolves in sheeps clothing. Or, A faithful advice,…A warning to the flocks against wolves in sheeps cloathing. Or, A faithful advice,…
A warning to the flocks against wolves in sheeps clothing. Or, A faithful advice, from several ministers of the Gospel, in and near Boston, unto the churches of New-England, relating to the dangers that may arise from impostors, pretending to be ministers. : With a brief history of some impostors, remarkably and seasonably detected written, by one of the ministers in Boston, to assert that advice, and prevent future mischiefs. : [Five lines of Scripture texts]A warning to the flocks against wolves in sheeps cloathing. Or, A faithful advice, from several ministers of the Gospel, in and near Boston, unto the churches of New-England, relating to the dangers that may arise from impostors, pretending to be ministers. : With a brief history of some impostors, remarkably and seasonably detected written, by one of the ministers in Boston, to assert that advice, and prevent future mischiefs. : [Five lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by B. Green and J. Allen, 1700
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Letter: Boston, 25 d. 10 m. 1699. A LETTER, Containing a Remarkable HISTORY, OF AN Impostor.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
SIR,
I Am going to Entertain you, with a very surprising Story, by the Communication whereof, the Wisdom, and Goodness, and Justice of Heaven, will become Observable to many Christian Minds, and the Devices of Hell against the Interests of Heaven, be a little more fully understood, and by being understood, for the future prevented.
I Am going to Entertain you, with a very surpising Story, by the Communication whereof, the Wisdom, and Goodness, and Justice of Heaven, will become Observable to many Christian Minds, and the Devices of Hell against the Interests of Heaven, be a little more fully understood, and by being understood, for the future prevented.
The Last Summer, in the very Ship that brought us Letters from our Friends i• […] to the Nonconformists from […] fellows, that pretended unto the Preaching of the Glorious Gospel, there arrived unto us a man, that pretended the Name of Samuel May, and the character of a Preacher; having with him a Woman whom he call[…]d his Wife, but used her with an Unwifely Crabbedness, that gave Scandal to the people aboa[…]d. Albeit this man gave me much cause to be suspicious, Lest he might be one of those whom our Letters complained of, yet my compassion towards a Needy Stranger, whom I saw, in ragged, wretched, forlorn circumstances, caused me among other ways of being Helpful unto him, to seek that he might be twice Employed in, and Requited for Preaching at our Private Meetings; hoping thereby to have a little Trial of him His Plausible Delivery, presently Enchanted abundance of Honest people, who thought all was Gold that glistered; but many Days passed not, before I found several Things, which made me say, I doubted, he was a Wolf in Sheeps Clothing They that now say, They followed this man, because I commended him, wrong me very much; for though 'tis not my manner to speak ill of men, till I know what